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You can live and thrive without loans, credit cards, and debt.
Last night, my husband and I had a real heart-to-heart on debt and how being on the debt-free journey has drastically altered our beliefs on how money should work in our home. And how we’ve seen first...
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How to financially prepare to become a stay-at-home mom so you don’t go broke.
My husband and I always planned on me staying home with our kids – even before we were married this was the plan we had. However, after we found out we were pregnant with our first child, it became...
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What is your budget problem?
I have super duper exciting news to share with you…I’m officially on my way to becoming an actual real-life financial coach! I’m so excited but not just for me and getting to check this goal off my...
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Life Insurance Through Work? It’s Likely Not Enough
This is a guest post written by Elizabeth Renter, from NerdWallet. Employer-based life insurance isn’t like birthday cash from your grandmother — it’s in your best interest to question whether you’re...
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When your money’s been on autopilot too long…
Ever feel lost and just flat-out tired? I know for me I’ve struggled more times than I can count with money – in various ways. Back when I was 21 and nearly evicted and bankrupted, I was struggling...
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How to Stick to Your Budget
The biggest problem with budgeting is sticking to it. Hands down it’s the biggest problem everyone faces. I mean, most of us can create a budget, but many of us struggle to stay the course. Why?...
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The 50/20/30 Budget Framework Explained
One of my most popular posts, is one on the 50/20/30 budget breakdown. Now, I didn’t create this formula, it’s from an awesome book called Financially Fearless by Alexa von Tobel. But it’s an easy way...
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How to Pay Off Debt as a One-Income Family
This is my guest post that was featured on POPSUGAR. To go ahead and read the full post, head here or to read a spinet of the post, continue on. It was a crazy thought — paying off and cutting up...
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How to manage money with your spouse without fighting.
Spouses. They make life so much more interesting don’t they? If you’re married, or soon-to-be married, chances are you’ve had to deal with the sometimes fun but mostly stressful task of trying to...
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Simple ways to make communicating with your spouse easier
So, I know I just talked about managing money with your spouse and not going broke or arguing about it, but I also want to address the other and honestly, bigger problem here. It’s no secret that the...
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When your money problem has nothing to do with money.
It’s true. Many times our real problem with money has absolutely nothing to do with money. Sometimes our actual problem is something that goes much deeper than a green piece of paper with numbers and...
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How to make healthy dinners on a budget & short on time
When you’re trying wrangle in your grocery budget but eat healthy, it can be challenging. After all, most of the coupons are for processed foods and healthy foods are not usually very cheap. So how do...
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Money isn’t the answer. How to find financial freedom
In my coaching group, I shared this message with the group: “Oh my goodness y’all. I’m reading Tony Robbins new book, Unshakable and this quote jumped out at me and is so freaking true. “Is it really...
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How to handle collection phone calls.
Let’s talk collections, more specifically, collectors. I know how embarrassing it is to receive a collection call and I know how overwhelming it is when you are being hounded by the collector. I’ve...
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Get out of debt while living paycheck to paycheck – YES it’s possible!
Whenever I talk about how my family has worked hard to become debt-free, I usually hear at least once, “yeah, but that would never work for us because we’re stuck living paycheck to paycheck.” Trust...
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Our recent money fail…
I feel like a crazy person. This month has been a total whirlwind when it comes to our finances and I’m not going to lie, no matter how in habit I am with saving money, I do not and probably will...
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How To Start Saving For Retirement: A Step By Step Guide
If you’re on my email list, you may remember that post that I promised you last week – the one where my friend and financial planner was going to guest post and share all the details of saving for...
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How to survive summer without going broke
Summer has pretty much already landed here in Georgia. We keep getting surprised with a few blissful days of Spring but mostly we’re in the mid to high 80’s and that good ol’Georgia humidity is back...
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Overcoming wants and how I’m swallowing my pride.
I’m not going to lie to you. Budgeting sucks sometimes. It sucks whenever you don’t have the money to do whatever it is that you want to do. But you know what sucks even more? Not knowing you don’t...
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How to revamp your budget for the summer!
This a sponsored post, written by me on behalf of Dave Ramsey’s ELP program to help share budgeting saving tips for this summer. As always, all opinions are 100% my own. Summer is the perfect time...
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